When celebrities brighten the screen or the stage, it's pretty clear what their talents are. They use their gifts and imagination to transport viewers to another time and place. But in everyday life, what can -- and can't -- they do? Can they program their TiVos? Can they play golf? Can they balance their checkbooks?

"I can't draw to save my life," says Kate Hudson ("Almost Famous"). "I can't paint anything -- I'm a stick-figure only or some horrible spatters on a paper. I wish I could draw, that would be my favorite thing. I'm a good athlete. I'm a good skier and fast runner."

By contrast, Jane Seymour ("Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman") is a professional painter, boasting 14 one-woman shows a year. But Seymour admits she's hopelessly messy. "I'm terrible at staying tidy because I move too fast. I'm terribly impatient and try to do too many things at once and sometimes I'm moving three things from a room and mislay them, I'm very bad at that. I'm good at doing 10 things at once."

Edie Falco ("The Sopranos") says, "I'm good at snuggling my kids and making them laugh. I'm awful at any computer-related stuff. I feel like a very stupid person. I just have no aptitude for that."

James Woods ("Shark") is great with computers, but admits he's a lousy singer. "I'm a good dancer -- I can cut a rug pretty well and am not afraid to do the cha-cha and rumba and swing. I'm smart with the Macintosh. I've had one since 1984. Actually, I'm a very good photographer. In fact, the cover of Bette Davis' autobiography, I took her picture."

Jonathan Rhys Myers ("The Tudors") confesses he's a lame tennis player. "On 'Match Point' Woody Allen beat me, but he plays every day, so it's not so terrible. It's not a game that requires age, it just requires experience, so that's what I'm really terrible at. And what would I be really good at? I keep my hands pretty clean. I hate untidiness."

Eliza Dushku ("Dollhouse") says she feels like an alien in her kitchen. "I'm not a good woman in some ways. I don't really know how to take care of a household. But I'm good at where-there's-a will-there's-a-way, and I'm good at making lemonade out of lemons and trying to always look on the bright side and find the sweet in the seemingly sour."

Timothy Hutton ("Leverage") is expert at fixing things. "I don't need to call anybody in. I have an old farmhouse and like to fix it myself in upstate New York. That's really my base. But when Milo [his son] is in school, Paris is it. I can build a pretty good treehouse, but I'm bad at cooking. My wife can cook, but doesn't know how to build a treehouse."

When it comes to sheer menial labor, none can beat Tom Selleck ("Magnum, P.I."). Selleck owns a 63-acre ranch and does most of the chores himself. "I sometimes clean out stalls. I plant a lot of trees, I do brush clearance. I do really hard physical work. Yeah, I could pay somebody to do it, but I'm cheaper, and I don't like going to the gym."